Minnov8 Gang 188 – Is it Breaking News?

The news business continues to transform itself and news apps are proliferating. But are our mobile device notifications of “breaking news”, especially when that news is mundane and not ‘breaking’, causing us to divert our attention when we shouldn’t be bothered? We discuss this and many more developments in this week’s show.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music: Tell Me What to Do by Boo Boo Davis brought to us by the podsafe Music Alley.

The Podcast

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Discussed during the show…

• SmartThings wins Spark of Genius start-up contest at Dublin Web Summit
• Kickstarter:
  • SmartThings on Kickstarter
  • Pebble Watch on Kickstarter
  • What Happens When Kickstarters Fail?
• Coursera:
  • Minnesota eases restrictions on online education following Internet dust-up
  • Minnesota Bans Stanford’s Unauthorized Free Online Education
  • Free Online Education Is Now Illegal in Minnesota
• Tablets:
  • Best Buy joins Android tablet PC crowd with Insignia Flex
  • Apple tablet, Amazon tablet, Microsoft tablet … meet Best Buy tablet
  • Microsoft Hopes $499 Starting Price for Surface Will Click With Consumers
    • Microsoft Surface ad
    • Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff: Windows 8 Is ‘the End of Windows’
• Here’s Why Google Could Disappear in Five Years
• News:
  • Circa’s New iOS App Will Change The Way You Consume News
  • Circa wants to save journalism by killing articles — what’s wrong and right about that (by Sarah Lacy)
  • Instapaper creator Marco Arment launches The Magazine, a different kind of periodical for Apple’s Newsstand
  • News360 and Flipboard
• Ruby on Rails
• Dr. Tae on Skateboarding for Education
• Robert Scoble & Shel Israel book ‘Age of Context’ draft introduction

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